Combination-tool of the hammer type.



PATENTED FEB. 20, 1906.

E. E. MOLKENTHIN. COMBINATION TOOL OF THE HAMMER TYPE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY'lS, 190 i.

[NVE/VTOR W/ TNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN E. E. MOLKENTHIN, OF CCEUR DALENE, IDAHO.

COMBINATION-TOOL OF THE HAMMER TYPE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed May 18,1904. Serial No. 208,548.

. To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, HERMAN E. E. MOL- KENTHIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Coeur dAlene, county of Kootenai, and State ofIdaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombination-Tools of the Hammer Type, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to combination-tools of the hammer type, and unlikemost of the combination-tools of the past it does not aggregate a numberof elements which have no relation to each other, but combines a numberof useful parts that are interdependent and go to make a tool ofutility.

The object of the invention is the provision of parts on the hammerwhich are so correlated thereto as to make the parts indispensable inthe uses to which a hammer is put.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means slidablymounted in the handle which will enable the operation of the tool tomeasure distances apart which nails are to be driven in precise work.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of meansslidably mounted in the handle for sawing and novel means for lookingthe sawing means and the measuring means in the handle.

The invention consists of the novel features and combination of parts,which will be more fully described hereinafter and pointed out in theappended claims.

The drawings forming part of this application are to be considered inconnection with the following specification, and in which- Figure 1 is aside plan view of the tool. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one side, showingthe claw superposed above the nail-driver. Fig. 3 is a view of theopposite side. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the hammer used to set acrosscut-saw.

Referring more specially to the drawings, 1 represents the body of thedevice,which is secured to the handle 2.

The numerals 3, 5, 8, and 9 refer to parts which have been shown atFigs. 1 and 4 and which are described in my copending application,Serial No. 224,124, which is a division of this application.

Integral with the body 1 of the device and extending out therefrom isthe head of the hammer 10 and directly above is the clawbar 11, both ofthe usual construction. EX- tending in the opposite direction and alsointegral with the bodyl is a head 12,similar to the driving-head 10, butsomewhat shorter, and centrally located therein is a V or wedge shapedaperture 13 of suitable length, which is adapted to receive the end of anail to bend it or break it off. Superposed with relation to the head 12is a nail-setting head 14, tapered to a dull point 15 sufiiciently smallto set the ordinary nail. This head can be used in place of a ball-pointhammer for riveting, thus avoiding the necessity of having two hammers.Between the nail-setting head 14 and the head 13 are formed undercutapertures 16 on either side of the body 1, adapted to receive the headsof nails which are to be started above where they canbe reached withoutthe added length of the hammer to the height of the operator.

When the rule is to be used, the rule-catch is depressed and the rulewithdrawn to the requisite distance. With the saw the catch is depressedand the saw entirely drawn out and reversed and the catch allowed toseat in an aperture formed in the body of the saw, so as to lock it inoperative position.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the way the device is operated to set the teethof a crosscut-saw x. The tooth of the saw is inserted between the heads12 and 14 and the handle depressed, so as to bend the tooth out ofalinment of the back of the blade to the distance required to give itthe necessary set.

In this application I lay no claim to the mechanism and operation ofholding the tools within the handle of the device, as this has beendistinctly claimed in my copending application, Serial No. 224,124,which is a division of this application.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tool having a hammer-head 12 and a pointed nail-setting head 14disposed side by side with their adjacent faces in substantiallyparallel relation and provided with the undercut apertures 16 onopposite sides of the body for the purpose set forth.

2. In a tool of the class described, the combination with a handle and abody transverse ICO thereto, of a nail-driving head and a nail exturedhead adapted to receive the point of a traeting claw on one side of thehandle and nail. 10 substantially parallel to each other, a nail- Intestimony whereof I hereunto'affix my setting head, and an a erturedhead also subsignature in presence of two Witnesses. 5stantially'parallel an extending onthe op HERMAN E. E. MOLKENTHIN.

Eosite side of the handle, said naiT- setting Witnesses:

ead being ion er and extending beyond said P, BEARD, apertured' head,said aperture in said ap'erl A. V. OHAMBERLIN.

